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Wot U Call ESKI?

Have you ever suddenly had a hand gripping at your throat while DJing out in a club? A death threat in your ear? All that for playing out a specific record? The record in question was Igloo by Wiley, the instrumental version of Wiley’s 2004 hit “Wot do u call …

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DOC’TRIN presents “Lonely Lovers II”

If you’re in the mood to drift away for a while… Here are ten more jams with themes of loneliness, heartbreak, hopeless romance, delusion and sad memories. It’s O.K to wallow, just as long as you get it out of your system. To make sure you snap out of it, …

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2012 Best Of – MIMS Writers

Best of lists are always quite the daunting task but as music lovers it’s one of the best times to the year to super charge your music discoveries by reading tips from some of the best music heads out there. So, without further ado here is the top 5 tracks …

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EVO presents “My Top of Albums & Tracks of 2012”

When Lexis sent out an email to all the MIMS contributors, asking for everyone’s “best of” lists, I was inflicted with mixed emotions. On one hand, I was pretty excited to get the opportunity to share my top picks of 2012 for the first time with all of the MIMS …

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5 Slept On Female Rappers You Should Know

You’ve already bounced to the vibes of Lil’ Kim, Foxy Brown, Lauryn Hill or even legends like MC Lyte and Roxanne Shante. But the grandiose universe of hip-hop gave birth to some fly ladies you might not even not about. Let me shine a light on those female mc’s with …

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Yes McCan (Dead Obies)
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YES McCAN presents “My Favorite Brazilian Albums”

To know Brazilian music is quite an achievement, and I wouldn’t dare consider myself an authority in this field. I’d rather say that I love music, and add in the same breath that Brazil has produced a quantity of some ridiculously good recorded music over the course of the last century. Following …

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Mr. Guan (vienna, The Loud Minority)
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MR. GUAN presents “My Favorite Tracks from TLM Records”

I’ve been wanting to link up with The Loud Minority for a long time now. They are a crew / dj collective out of Vienna, Austria and have been doing their thing for 8 years now and I’ve always been told to respect my elders heheh. No but really I …

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DR. MaD presents “My Favorite Slum Village Tracks”

Dr. MaD (of the Alaiz crew) is one of my favorite up and coming Montreal producers, a young guy with a lot of talent on the pads who should should definitely check out: his bandcamp link. We are organizing the SLUM VILLAGE show in Montreal this thursday May 24th (details …

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SCHLACHTHOFBRONX presents “Our Favorite Dutty Tracks”

Once again instead of asking one of the artists we’re playing with the same old Q & A you’ve heard a million times, we thought we’d ask if they’d be part of that little something we like to call MIMS Lists. Since the Schlachthofbronx boys are in town for the …

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